Since Yvan Colonna has been in a coma, after being violently attacked by a fellow prisoner imprisoned for terrorism, demonstrations have multiplied in Corsica at the call of students, high school students, nationalist organizations or trade unions accusing the State to bear a heavy responsibility.

Wednesday evening, several hundred people had gathered in Ajaccio, Calvi (Haute-Corse) or Bastia.

But very quickly, clashes broke out between some protesters and the police.

In Ajaccio, the scuffles continued until midnight and demonstrators broke into the courthouse, which was closed at this time.

“We are not scum, we are patriots, get out of here”

Reams of paper or rubbish were burned in the lobby and other outbreaks of fire blackened the facade.

These fires were quickly extinguished by firefighters.

"There was a fire on the ground floor of the court, no spread to the upper floors but a lot of damage", indicated Jean-Jacques Peraldi, the director of the fire and rescue services of Corse-du- South.

There were at least two arrests, according to a police source.

Later, some demonstrators, equipped with a mechanical mini-excavator, degraded a Crédit Agricole branch, before heading to Place Claude Erignac, a highly symbolic place, Yvan Colonna having been condemned for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in 1998. There several people intervened to avoid any degradation, a man climbing on the digger and shouting: “We are not scum, we are patriots, get out of here.

At least 14 people were injured, including a TF1 journalist in the leg, according to the prefecture.

In Bastia, 23 CRS and three civilians were injured

In Calvi (Haute-Corse), another institutional location was targeted.

After a calm start to the demonstration, "about forty demonstrators, hooded, threw molotov cocktails at the sub-prefecture and broke windows with stones", reported the prefecture in a press release.

In this context of escalation, the authorities called for "appeasement and dialogue in order to avoid any new victims".

In Bastia, 23 CRS and three civilians were injured, including a photographer from the daily

Corse-Matin

, according to a report from the Haute-Corse prefecture published at the end of the demonstration around 9:30 p.m.

"The demonstrators fired molotov cocktails, agricultural bombs, iron balls, sling shots" and "the CRS maintained the distance with the demonstrators by using tear gas", detailed the prefecture in a press release.

"Only one LBD shot was fired and hit an approaching protester in the lower parts with a molotov cocktail," she added.

“murderous French state”

Yvan Colonna was imprisoned in the central house of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône).

He had been asking for a long time to be brought back to Corsica, which was systematically refused to him because of a status of "particularly reported detainee".

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Jean Castex had lifted this status but this decision, far from appeasing, was deemed much too late in Corsica, Yvan Colonna being between life and death in a Marseille hospital since his attack on March 2 .

Our file on Yvan Colonna

Some nationalist movements call for the continuation of the mobilization.

They took action on Wednesday to hold a unitary demonstration on Sunday afternoon in Bastia, despite the reluctance of the Colonna family, who said they feared "a new tragedy" in the context.

On Sunday thousands of people had already demonstrated in Corte (Haute-Corse) chanting in Corsica “Statu francesu assassinu!

», « French State assassin ».

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